{"id":450450,"date":"2023-06-14T14:50:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=450450"},"modified":"2023-06-14T14:55:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T18:55:32","slug":"ethiopia-general-inflation-declines-to-33-percent-2nd-straight-month-decline-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/450450","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia general inflation declines to 33 percent, 2nd straight month decline: Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopia\u2019s general inflation rate has declined to 33 percent in May down from 33.5 percent in April,\u00a0 the governmental Ethiopian Stastiscs Service (ESS) disclosed this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopia\u2019s general inflation rate for April stood at 33.5 percent, showing a decline of 0.2 percent, the ESS had disclosed previously.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its monthly update report, ESS disclosed food inflation rate has also declined from 33.7 percent in April to 32.5 percent in May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ethiopian Statistics Service attributed the decline in food prices to slight decline in prices of some food items such as rice, Ethiopia\u2019s staple crop Teff, wheat, barley, fats, cooking oils and maize.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the ESS said the non-food inflation rate for May had shown an increase of 0.5 percent to stand at 33.7 percent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The governmental agency attributed the increase in non-food inflation rate to the increase in prices of clothing, footwear, housing repair, maintenance goods, Jewelry and electronics goods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest ESS report about decline in Ethiopia\u2019s general inflation rate for May 2023, is contrary to on the ground reports about relentlessly increasing prices of basic consumer goods in the east African country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s general inflation rate has declined to 33 percent in May down from 33.5 percent in April,\u00a0 the governmental Ethiopian Stastiscs Service (ESS) disclosed this week.\u00a0 Ethiopia\u2019s general inflation rate for April stood at 33.5 percent, showing a decline of 0.2 percent, the ESS had disclosed previously.\u00a0 In its monthly update report, ESS disclosed food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":450453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4821],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-450450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/download-2.jpg?fit=285%2C177&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1Tbk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450451,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450450\/revisions\/450451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}